American Revolution

During the American Revolution the United States was in great debt. The government owed bonds to the soldiers and money they had borrowed from other countries. The debt was 54 million. The government needed to come up with a way to make money to help their country and get everything under control. Alexander Hamilton ,secretary of Treasury, came up with a way to help reduce their debt. He wanted to tax whiskey, it was commonly used and would help with the financial damage. This made…

When considering the ultimate purpose of the American Revolution, it was widely regarded as incredulous to establish a fresh Constitution that was perceived of having a replicated concept of the monarchical and centralized British government. Suppressing acts, such as the Stamp Act and Quartering Act of 1765, that were implemented by the monarchical British government onto the colonies are only a couple of the several obvious reasons for the prominent rebellion. With the leadership of Patrick…

The American Revolution was an unpredicted uprising by the American colonies fighting for independence from their ostensibly tyrannical British Empire. The insurrection was surprising in the fact that Americans displayed hardly any distaste for being a part of the British Empire. Despite possessing advantages for being a part of the Empire, the American colonies developed an animosity towards the British after a series of events that would leave the ununified colonies exasperated. These events…

The first point that have caught my attention in chapter 4 is the fact that, it is bieing seen the American Revolution was a substitution of one tyranny for one tyranny. Zin is trying to show us that the founding fathers were just a elite that was trying to keep the lower classes to stay in the" low class " category. In the beginning of the chapter he says that the founders was taking over land, political power and profits from the British empire. As they do that they will be able to hold back…

Were the Colonist indeed justified in their abolishment and desertion of the british empire at the time of the what has now come to be known as the American revolution is the question at hand. As quoted by John Locke, from which Thomas Jefferson also included this in the Declaration of Independence, believing that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. To secure these…

their thoughts”.( John Locke). The acts in the revolution best describes the ideology of the American colonies and the French. Showing how the American and French revolution are similar but at the same time their differences. The phase of the symptoms of the of the French and American Revolution have some differences and similarities . An example is that the American Revolution started because England was in war for 7 years and consider the American colonies as part of their country so they…

The French and The American revolution had many things in common… For example, they were both not content with their government. The difference was that they had a different reason to rebel. The French Revolution, began after the Ancien Regime. The Ancien Regime was a time where France was divided into three estates; The first stage, which included the church. The second stage, the nobles, and finally, the third stage, included the commoners. These estates were unfair because even though the…

The American Revolution was a very famous war, leading to probably the most famous breakup message known to man. But what caused it? The answer is not just one thing, but rather a collection of reasons. Some causes for the revolution were the Townshend Acts, the Intolerable Acts, and some good old Common Sense, literally. To kick off, the Townshend Acts were a big cause of the American Revolution. But, what were the Townshend Acts? The Townshend Acts were tax laws that put a tax on glass,…

In the beginning, the American Revolution was only a rebellion by British colonists, however, it quickly turned into something much more. The road to the Revolution started with a nine-year war between the French and the British over land in the Ohio River Valley, and ended with the battles in Lexington and Concord between the minutemen and militia. The road to the American Revolution was paved by the French and Indian War, all the acts passed by England, the events in Boston, and the Battles in…

The Venezuelan war of Independence, like the American Revolutions, was largely caused by what the people deemed an unfair government policy. In 1728 the Spanish Crown granted exclusive trading rights to “The Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas. The Spanish Crown issued the exclusive trading rights because Spain was hoping to stop illegal intercolonial trade in Venezuela. The American Revolution and Venezuelan Independence both were heavily affected by people who were considered part of the…